Improved dinner-pail



aient Gt-titille.

JOI-IN O. FAIRBAIRN, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

Letters Patent N 97 ,181, dated .November 23, 1869.

IMPRO'V'ED DINNER-FAIL.

MoN- The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all wlioml it may concerne' Be it known that I, J oHN 0. FAIRBAIRN, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and State of XVisconsin, haveinvented certain new and useful lm- Vprovements in Dinner-Fails; and Ido hercbyde-clal'e that the followiugis afull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,rinaking part of this specificatiomtand to the letters of reference marked thereon, like letters indica-ting like parts wherever theyoccur.

To enable others skilled in the art to construct and use my invention, Iwillfproceed to describe it.

My invention relates to folding dinner-pails, and consists in constructing them in water-tight compartments, so that they may be mounted, when in use, over each other, or he folded or arranged within each other, in a close and compact manner, for easycarriage auil transportation when desired.

Figure l is a longitudinal vertical section of my pailfwhen its different compartments are mounted upon one another, and

Figure fl isa vertical section of the same when folded.

In Aconstructing my pail A, I make three or more water-tight compartments, B, C, and D, out of tin or other suitable material, and of an oval or other desired form. i

.Around each of these compartments, and near their open ends, I sink a groove, It, as shown in both iignres, so as to form a shoulder for the support of the compartment next` above, the upper compartment being provided with a cover, E, having a small receptaclc, F, over whichtits loosely acup, G, all as clearly shown iu both figures.

'Io the exterior of thc compartment B, I attach, rigidly; two hooks c, so as to be opposite to each other, and to the bottoms of the compartments and D, connect loosely the rings a.

The under side ofthe cover E, I provide with a loose ring, t', for raising the cover when turned. and its ontside with two loose rings e, near its edge, and yequidistaut from each other, andalso with two hooks k, for the purposes hereinafter explained.

The compartments and cover thus constructed, I arrange for use, as clearly shown in tig. 1; and for convenience in carrying, as well as for holdingr them se'- curely together, I attach the ends of a cord or chain, d, to the hooks c, having first placed upon it a handle,

f, and passed its ends through the rings e ofthe cover, as clearly shown in fio'. 1.

As the rings con the coverare, in this arrangement, directly over the hooks c, on the compartment B, and as the hooks and rings are on the opposite sides o the pail, as well as opposite to each other, it is obvious that the pail can be conveniently carriedby the handie f 1V hen the cords are drawn up tightly, I keep them in that position by means of the hooks k, which are so attached to the cover as to be turned and caught into au eye or loop ou the cords or chains for that purpose, and in this'way also keep', the compartments in an upright and iixed position, as clearly shown in Iig. 1.

When the pail is not in use, that is, not occupied with anything, itl may be taken apart, and folded up, in the following manner:

By releasing the hooks k, and then turning the -cover E over and iitting it into the compartment D, then turning the conniartment I) over and fitting it in to the compartment C, and then turning the compartment C ovcrand fitting it into the compartment B. When this is .done, the whole will be compactly arranged in a small compass, as clearly shown in 2, with the ring a on the upper side, and can bc conveniently carried or packed for transportation.

The advantages of having a dinner-pail constructed in this way, -with differentcompartment-s, are obvious.

One of them can be used for liquids and the other for articles of different kinds.` The liquids and these different articles can be kept entirely separate, and in this way a very 'lesirable purpose be accomplished.

Having thus described my invention,

l. A diuner-pail consisting of the compartmentsB, O, and D, and cover E, all constructed as herein described,

so that they may be arranged upon each other, or

compactly folded up, as shown and set forth.

.2. The compartments B, C, and l), and cover E,

provided with the hooks k, in combination with the cord or chain d, when constructed so as to be arranged as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN O. FAIRBAIRN.

Wlitn esses:

1 WM. A. Pnnnrrss,

O. D. DAVIS. 

